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Synopsis
"Troupe's poems resemble Romare Bearden's collages: muscular and colorful."-North American Review
In the Whitmanic tradition, Quincy Troupe's poetry explodes from the page, capturing the spirit of America.
Inspired by contemporary art, music, literature, and sports, The Architecture of Language dismantles the dangerously clichéd, wooden rhetoric saturating our national discourse and rebuilds the language in poems bursting with beauty, energy, and enough imaginative fire to light the way to the future.
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About the Author
Featured on two PBS poetry series, Troupe is the author of seven volumes of poetry including Transcircularities, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Minnesotabased Talking Volumes bookclub selection. In addition to children's books on Magic Johnson and Stevie Wonder, Troupe chronicled his friendship with Miles Davis in Miles and Me, soon to be a feature film.
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In the best poems in Troupe's latest collection—following 2002's Transcircularities—which is organized into seven thematic sections, this prolific author finds that "magic comes when you least expect it." A group of fervent and timely political poems, as well as a section comprising a series of lush, lyrical poems centered largely in the author's part-time residence in the French West Indies are the collection's strongest pieces. Troupe's trademark use of "eye" in place of "I" can be, at the very least, distracting, and some of the poems dedicated to famous subjects (Richard Pryor, Tiger Woods) become too expository as passion loses out to reverence. The extended title poem that closes the book is a call for "a poetry of openness in america, now," rallying the reader toward a 21st-century linguistic inclusiveness: "the american voice is not white or black, european or asian,/ middle eastern or african, but mestizo, fused with jambalaya." (Oct.)
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